In response to a call by Gangestad and Snyder (2000), this paper is a preliminary step in the investigation of status-oriented motivation in self-monitoring theory. A word association task with four student samples (US, UK, Quebec and Switzerland) shows that the nature of the link between...

This study examines the impact of ERP solutions on the paradigms of business and management. The objective is also to see the positioning of ERP today and its role in relation to new solutions and technology, notably Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and...

This article examines the relative influence of socio-economic variables versus attitudes as regards to consumer behavior towards book reading as a leisure activity. Previous studies on leisure consider the amount of discretionary time available to the individual as a decisive factor.(...)

This paper proposes and tests an approximation of the solution of a class of piecewise deterministic control problems, typically used in the modeling of manufacturing flow processes. This approximation uses a stochastic programming approach on a suitably discretized and sampled system.(...)